{"id":116,"date":"2024-11-16T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/16\/orthodoxy-and-freemasonry\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T02:29:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T02:29:00","slug":"orthodoxy-and-freemasonry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/16\/orthodoxy-and-freemasonry\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthodoxy and Freemasonry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1933, the Orthodox Church of Greece officially declared that being a Freemason constitutes an act of apostasy and thus, until he repents, the person involved with Freemasonry cannot partake of the Eucharist. This has been generally affirmed throughout the whole Eastern Orthodox Church. The Orthodox critique of Freemasonry agrees with both the Catholic and Protestant versions:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Freemasonry cannot be at all compatible with Christianity as far as it is a secret organisation, acting and teaching in mystery and secret and deifying rationalism. (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freemasonry#Anti-Masonry\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinfo.com\/ecumenism\/masonry.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Freemasonry: Official Statement of the Church of Greece (1933)<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1933, the Orthodox Church of Greece officially declared that being a Freemason constitutes an act of apostasy and thus, until he repents, the person involved with Freemasonry cannot partake of the Eucharist. This has been generally affirmed throughout the whole Eastern Orthodox Church. The Orthodox critique of Freemasonry agrees with both the Catholic and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eoc","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}